Christian ethics : a historical introduction / J. Philip Wogaman.

Wogaman, J. Philip.
Louisville, Ky. : Westminster/John Knox Press, c1993.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-327) and index.
  • The legacies of Christian ethics — The biblical legacy of Christian ethics — Philosophical legacies — The ethics of early Christianity — The formative years — Seminal thinkers and transitions — The moral vision of Saint Augustine — Medieval Christianity — Monastic and mystical contributions — The confessional — The Thomistic synthesis — Late medievcal forerunners — The era of Reformation and Enlightenment — The reformers : Luther and Calvin — Catholic humanism and Counter-Reformation — The radical Reformation — Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelicalism — Rationalism and revival in the eighteenth century — Nineteenth-century philosophical and Christian ethics — Nineteenth-century slavery and feminist controversies — Christian ethics in the twentieth century — The social gospel movement — The social encyclicals — Formative Christian moral thinkers — The Vatican II watershed — Liberation theology — Ecumenical social ethics — Christian ethics toward the third millennium — Conflicting tendencies –Can Christian ethics find a creative center?

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